Quotes About Dignity

that we must carry ourselves with some increased external dignity. The world is bewigging itself, and we must buy a bigger wig than any we have got, in order to confront the world with proper self-respect. Turveydrop and deportment will suffice for us against any odds.

He had never done any good, but he had always carried himself like a duke, and like a duke he carried himself to the end.

Is a woman like a head of cattle, that she can be fastened in her crib by force? I will never live with him though all the judges of the land should decide that I must do so.

People are not dull to me, if they are real. I pity that poor lady. She is proud of her blood and yet not ashamed of her poverty.

A man who is a gentleman in his cups may be trusted to be a gentleman at all times.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

Lady Linlithgow, too, though very strong, was old. She was slow, or perhaps it might more properly be said she was stately in her movements.

defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

Como si fuera más digno morirse de leucemia que de SIDA. Como si fuera indigno ser sidoso. Como si en la muerte hubiera alguna dignidad

There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle

for nobility is excellence of race.

Fourth, it would make no sense for an inability to defend oneself by physical means to be a source of shame, while an inability to defend oneself by verbal means was not, since the use of words is more specifically human than the use of the body.

Pride, then, seems to be a sort of crown of the virtues; for it makes them greater, and it is not found without them. Therefore it is hard to be truly proud; for it is impossible without nobility and goodness of character.

É belo morrer antes de se fazer algo digno da morte. - Anaxândrias

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Es una cobardía, digna sólo de un esclavo, sufrir un insulto y dejar que impunemente se ataque a las personas de su cariño.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

You have to respect yourself before you can command a guy's respect.

You, calling yourself a reasonable man, are going about dependent for your happiness, dignity, and growth, upon a thousand things over which you have no control, and the most exquisitely organised machine for ensuring happiness, dignity, and growth, is rusting away inside you.

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.